You're leaving out a step -- take a look at the examples for viewFin and note that you have to download the financial data first with getFin()
Michael On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 9:53 PM, Brian Edmundson <brianedmunds...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear All, > > I'm new at R, but I really just need a couple of things. The first thing I > need is to figure out how to get each individual financial statement > (CF,BS,IS). I need each individual one because getting them all at once > allows for formatting issues once it is a CSV. The date subsetting is what > I need because I will be running a statistical model in excel. I know I > could probably build a cleaner model in R, but I have already built it in > excel. > > The first place I am stuck at is actually viewing the financials. I have > gotten it to work a few times, but i am trying to script the installation > sequence ( I still assume I have to load the packages as well - which I > have done). > > I have tried this sequence downloading straight from the - i think - the > CRAN mirror and I have also tried downloading this sequence straight from > R-Project.com... > > install.packages("TTR") > install.packages("zoo") > install.packages("Defaults") > install.packages("xts") > install.packages("quantmod") > > this still (from both downloading sources) produces > > viewFin("GE.f", "BS", "Q") > Error in viewFin("GE.f", "BS", "Q") : ‘x’ must be of type ‘financials’ > > Any help would be greatly appreciated - thank everyone so much! > > > -- > **Collateral Control Analyst II > Banking Officer - BB&T > 200 East 2nd Street Winston Salem, NC > brianedmunds...@gmail.com > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.